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Alon and I will be giving an hour talk about agile development next Wednesday at the SFRuby meetup: Agile software development provides a number of discrete practices to help you be a better programmer and a great provider of programming services to your clients, internal or external to your business. The continuous daily rigor of [...]
I’ve had a long-standing interest in taking client-side programming beyond display logic and input validation. The new HTML 5 technologies are making full-scale application development in the browser increasingly practical. Unfortunately, the needs of Carbon Five’s clients generally exceed the capabilities of purely client-side solutions, so I don’t get to spend as much time [...]
We’re growing our team in both the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices (yay!). We’re looking for bright, passionate developers who love to learn and work with their peers. We’re writing a lot of Ruby and JavaScript these days, but there’s also a fair bit of Objective-C (iPhone) and some Java as well. [...]
Last week, Mike Wynholds presented at the inaugural Los Angeles No SQL meetup. The movement to these non-traditional data storage systems has exploded in the last year, and we had a chance to use Cassandra in one of our client’s projects. Cassandra is a column based datastore developed within Facebook, and open-sourced as a top-level [...]
All UIViews have frame and bounds properties which define their dimensions. The similarity of these properties can cause some confusion when attempting to determine which property to use to calculate view sizes or reposition views. The frame of a view is given in the coordinates of its superview so a view controller’s view’s frame will include [...]
Javascript library publishers often go out of their way to prevent other sites from linking to their libraries directly, preferring anyone who wants to use their library to download and host the file(s) themselves. The most common way to do this is to check the referrer of any requests for javascript files and reject any [...]
I’m excited about our panel next Wed at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Blurring the Lines: From Human Centered Design to Customer Driven Development. We’re planning to share real world practices that help multi-disciplinary teams collaborate on creating great products. We’ve got a good range of perspective and experience to draw from. Maria Giudice from [...]
I’ll be speaking next Tuesday evening for SD Forum in Palo Atlo about Spring MVC. It’s mostly an introductory talk, but I’ll weave in some opinions and lessons learned from real projects. I’ll cover many of the MVC features, including those introduced in 3.0, by walking through code for a running application. Event Page Networking [...]
Dana Mitroff from SFMOMA and I are running a session April 17 at Museums and the Web in Denver, CO called Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Web Site Development. Our goal is to give attendees a taste of some of the novel activities we use to encourage collaboration, communication and fun while engaged [...]
We are embedding video from Vimeo on a site we are working on and wanted to change the behavior of playing a video so that it would go back to the first frame after the video was done playing, rather than staying on the last frame. Since it ended up being harder than expected and [...]
1. Download ruby source wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz 2. Install dependencies sudo yum install gcc sudo yum install gcc-c++ sudo yum install zlib-devel sudo yum install openssl-devel sudo yum install readline-devel sudo yum install sqlite3-devel 3. Build ruby from source cd ruby-1.8.7 ./configure --with-openssl-dir=/usr/lib64/openssl make sudo make install 4. Download rubygems source wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69365/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.6 sudo ruby setup.rb 5. Install gems sudo gem install rake sudo gem install rails sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby [...]
We’re proud to announce the release of Story Mapper, a project we have been working on at Carbon Five to support an Agile project planning technique called story mapping. We use Pivotal Tracker to manage our feature backlog and the day-to-day activities of tracking a feature from estimation through delivery and acceptance. However, we find it [...]
Alex sent me an email Saturday morning with this really cute Canvas game he wrote with his daughter Ada. His timing was really great since I am on a panel at SXSW Tuesday called Is Canvas the End of Flash? He explains it all below… I was telling Ada how video games are made one night, [...]
I have been writing tests around my iPhone apps’ view controllers in order to follow the same TDD practices we use in other environments. Writing tests first has changed the way I structure my code in a couple of ways which I think offer immediate and emergent benefits for my applications. Most of an iPhone [...]
Next week at EBig Jonah and I are wrapping up our world tour of talking about Javascript testing. March 17th in Oakland: ”Recent evolutions in Javascript testing frameworks now allow creating test suites, test-driving development, and running tests on a continuous integration server. This allows us to support more complex Javascript, have confidence in the implementation, [...]
I’m looking forward to participating in a panel Is Canvas the End of Flash? this month at SXSW on the role the new HTML Canvas element is playing in web development and how it compares to Flash. Much of the perspective I have for this panel comes from my long history working with Flash and [...]
Jonah and I are taking our presentation about Javascript Testing on the road next Tuesday at 6:30 in Palo Alto, at the SDForum The teaser for it… Recent evolutions in JavaScript testing frameworks now allow creating test suites, test-driving development, and running tests on a continuous integration server. This allows us to support more complex JavaScript, have [...]
I’ve written a maven plugin to integrate Screw.Unit javascript tests into a maven build. The project is inspired by the Blue Ridge testing framework for Rails, but it’s a bit more light-weight by design. To use the plugin you should start by downloading Screw.Unit and implement your tests according to their instructions. Once you [...]
Medco Health Solutions and Carbon Five client DNA Direct announced earlier this month that DNA Direct has been acquired by Medco. Congratulations to everyone on the DNA Direct team on this new opportunity to extend their genomic medicine and health care services to an exponentially greater audience. Among other initiatives, Carbon Five worked with DNA Direct [...]
I’m a bit of a hardware geek. I tend to keep up on what’s new and neat. I’m a bit conservative when it actually comes to buying the latest and greatest, but that doesn’t stop me from following the trends. I’ve been eyeing solid state disks for the last year or so, speculating that [...]
I’ve been following a Rails convention and defining multiple environments for my iPhone projects. This allows me to quickly switch application wide settings when running a test, development, or production version of the app. I already have build targets for each environment as part of the unit testing setup I have been using so adding target-specific [...]
Google announced today that they have acquired our client Aardvark. Congratulations to the very talented team at Aardvark on this next big step toward bringing their social search service to a global audience. Aarvark has more details on the acquisition. You can also read more about the work did helping the Aardvark bootstrap their team and [...]
5 Whys is a great way to get at the root of quality problems. On my last three projects, when I felt like code quality was dropping, I ran a “5 Whys” session. I have found it adds variety, solves a very specific problem, and plugs right in as an alternative to an agile reflection. It’s [...]
The latest release of the Carbon Five Database Migration maven plugin supports a new goal: check. The check goal fails the build if the database isn’t up to date. That is, if there are pending migrations the plugin produces a clear message explaining that the database is out of date and lists the [...]
I’m posting this because it took me too long to figure this out. Hope it saves someone else some trouble. If you want to use named route helpers to generate urls in your erector widgets you need to include ActionController::UrlWriter in your class, like so: class Views::Layouts::BasicPage < Erector::Widgets::Page include ActionController::UrlWriter ... end
